7th Taunt | Video/Action

[misterbrief]

Video:

[Hey, look, he's back with another subject that he's getting real sick and tired of explaining to people. That and after all the crap that's happened to him in the past few months, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to let people know, especially after a conversation he had with Cliff recently.]

Now I'm only going to explain this to the lot of you once. Now watch.

[He's out next to a sheer cliff, at the base of the mountain range. The camera is set on top of another rock, as to show the Saiyan Prince with his hand raised and aiming toward the rock wall- and as soon as it's raised, a blast of energy decimates the wall with a loud boom, leaving it as a rocky heap, the dust slowly settling. Vegeta hasn't flinched, and is coming back to pick up his journal again. This may also give away exactly who was responsible for all those explosions that were heard from last week, if people are smart enough to put two and two together.]

Now, with enough diligent training and meditation, which you should be doing anyway, any of you can do that. It's a simple matter of controlling your energy, but if you're not physically fit enough you're not going to be able to do it. In fact, I'd be surprised if even one percent of you manage to be able to achieve even a fraction of the same destructive force I possess. Either way, that might be something you'll all want to start aiming for. And if you're too weak to fight? Fix it.

Now don't misunderstand me. I'm not looking to pick up students. But if you think you can handle it? Then come find me. We'll see what you're made of.


Private to Firo:

Boy, you've stayed hidden long enough. I've got someone for you to meet.

Private to Cliff:

I do believe you and I have things to discuss yet. I'll not have you jumping me anymore with those pathetic attacks of yours, we're fixing that.

Private to Saori:

If you want to see how it's done, I'll be in the Battle Dome the rest of the day. Don't be late.



Action:

[As promised, he'll be at the Battle Dome if anyone decides to try to seek him out. He'll be actually in a chamber, training in a complete power suppressed simulation, working on his battōjutsu that he's taken up learning. Otherwise, those who know where to find him at home can find him at House 29.]

Comments

[misterbrief]

[He sits with her, holding his hands out in front of him, like he's holding an invisible ball.]

Place your hands like this. Now, instead of focusing your Anima to enhance your body, take it and place it between your hands, just as you've seen me do.

[windandrain]

[She imitates his posture, hands held in a meditative posture. This is familiar, this is very familiar. Like when Tesshin taught her how to tap into the Anima in the first place...]

Alright.

[misterbrief]

Now, simply draw it out into a orb, like so. [He demonstrates, a small tiny bit of energy forming in between the palms of his hands.]

[windandrain]

[This isn't anything particularly new. It's a simple, fairly basic exercise for the beginning steps of anima manipulation. But a Mortal doing it?

She pulls at it as requested, and a blue ball of electricity crackles to life between her fingers. Sparks fly between her fingers and the orb, but it remains contained]

Like this?

[misterbrief]

Right. [He says, nodding. He's...a little surprised, but not at the same time. She is a god, after all, and was well within the control of her own power.]

Now take that and increase the power ten fold. [She should be able to do that.]

[windandrain]

[She nods and focuses more essence into the ball. Her fingers spread wider to accommodate the extra power, and the electrical ball swells, growing larger and larger. Sparks fly from it, a chittering, crackling sound filling the chamber.]

Simple enough, a fledgling myojin could do this. A kami could do this.

[misterbrief]

If it's so simple, I want you to take that and hurl it at the wall. And I don't meant throw it like a baseball, I mean project it from your hands to the wall. Just as I do, in a beam. Can you do that?

[windandrain]

I may be able to. It's not really how Anima is meant to work.

[She rises, holding the ball of lighting between her fingertips and wills it forward. It streaks out towards the wall, but it's not a beam. Once it leaves the confines of her fine control it shifts away from the ball into a wall of blue-white light that strikes with a thunderclap.]

[misterbrief]

Not quite, I'm afraid. Did you have control over it once it left your hands? [It didn't appear to him as if she did. That can be problematic, in his eyes.]

[windandrain]

Yes and no.

[She balls up another strike, holding the crackling sphere.]

Lightning wants to expand, spread out. Containing it is all but impossible. I can guide it...but unless I'm using a spell to summon it, I can't focus it like that. Not really.

[misterbrief]

Well, is it possible for you to remove the lightning from it and only draw out pure energy? [He gets those physics. Maybe if she tried to remove that part of it it would go better for her.]

[windandrain]

...My body is made of lightning, wind, and rain, Vegeta. I don't know if I can pull out just pure energy.

[I mean...she can try...]

Maybe though...you mean raw will?

[misterbrief]

I don't care how you manage. If through raw will you're able to, then make it so. I think you'll find those kind of attacks useful in your arsenal. You've seen what Kakarot and I are capable of. Just think if that's something you can do too. Think of all the cultists that could be slaughtered even more quickly than before.

[Man he's getting excited just thinking about it.]

[windandrain]

[She nods and lifts her hands, closing her eyes and beginning to force pure, divine will into her hands. A low chant escapes her lips, mumbled words in a mantra... It's much more taxing than channeling Anima, and something she rarely uses, but after a few moments a gleaming ball of silver light appears in her hands. Pure divine energy, the power she'd use to shape clouds...and she's managed to bring a bit of it out. It ripples like mercury, but it's definitely some sort of energy.]

Is this what you meant? It's...draining, holding it like this.

[misterbrief]

Ah-! Yes, and it should drain you if you're not used to it. Now, why don't you try it again with that?

[Now that's pretty cool, even by Vegeta's standards. He's never seen energy like that before.]

[windandrain]

[She nods sharply and pushes it outward. It starts out as a beam, only...it's too thick, too solid, and eventually breaks apart as it nears the wall. Still, the silver energy hits with a thunderous impact, bathing the room in hoary light. That far from her body, it's hard to control. And the will required...stars...it's so difficult.]

Earth...and stars...that much will...I don't think it's supposed to go like that, either.

[misterbrief]

Well, you've at least got the idea. It's no surprise that was difficult. Looks like you've got something to work on, doesn't it?

[His arms yet again fold, smiling back at her. Hey, even this old dog can teach a few new tricks, in addition to learning them.]

[windandrain]

You want me to project will at an enemy?

[The idea of that is just so foreign...It might be effective though.]

How do you keep it together, as it goes outward?

[misterbrief]

Well... [He forms his own energy between his palms. He's never really had to explain this before.]

When you draw that power, it comes from your core, correct? When I fire, it's simply a force that continuously projects out, as if you were using a...garden hose with one of those silly nozzles attached to it or something of the like. And that's just the basics.

[She lives on Earth, she'll get the garden hose reference. He's not too great at this whole teaching thing...]

[windandrain]

Right...[She watches, consideringly. The metaphor is interesting, but not quite how she sees it.]

It comes from my core, but it's nothing like a hose. To borrow a metaphor from you, it's more like a tidal wave trying to come out of the nozzle. It doesn't want to be contained. It's...coming from the other part of me.

[The Divine self, the bestial side of her true self.]

[misterbrief]

Ah, yes, her. [Yeah he remembers her...] Well, tell her to pipe down so you can focus your attack instead of having it go every which way she wants it to. The more control you have the better off you'll be.

[windandrain]

You...know that she is where that power comes from, right?

[She's not really sure Vegeta understands that. It's not even that they're separate entities, but it's easier for him to think of it that way.]

[misterbrief]

Yes, I know, you explained it to me. She is the divine half of your existence, kept under wraps by your humanity. Personally I like you a lot better than her. [He will never not be bitter about that.]

[windandrain]

Most people do. [Saori huffs out a little laugh.] She's nearly strangled my half-sister more than once. And my half-sister's spirit has nearly done the same to me a few times.

[Setting herself, Saori concentrates more or less on the words rather than on the act of drawing out the will. Speech was human, after all. And it's a lot easier to keep her under wraps while doing something humans would do. So she begins to draw in power...]

But I think she's more beautiful than I am.

[misterbrief]

How? [Because honestly, he can't stand her divine side, how on Earth or any other planet does that make sense for Saori to think that? Really? She can't be serious.]